--- title: Ecstasy of Living date: 2010-10-16T11:26:56Z modified: 2010-10-16T16:21:02Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/ecstasy-of-living/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1097 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Ecstasy-of-Living.jpg" featured_image_alt: Ecstasy of Living author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2010-10-16T16:21:02Z tags: - Life Poems --- i remember the days![Ecstasy of Living](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Ecstasy-of-Living.jpg "Ecstasy of Living") when my mind used to be overrun with emotions and thoughts of all things good and the worst; as time went by, with each new [day](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/better-days-are-coming.md), and with a brand new life to look forward to, my mind emptied itself in a flash, just like that; with a cup of [coffee](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee.md) in hand, i sit back and think about the yesteryears, smiling at the change that has taken over me and the life that i have been [blessed](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/blessed.md) with now; strolling down the memory lane, unafraid of the future, blinded by the ecstasy of living eventually, with eyes [wide open](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/with-arms-wide-open.md), i’ve come to understand, that some things, including life, change for the better; ———————————————————————————- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – **Booker T. Washington** You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for [the meaning of life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-meaning-of-life.md). – **Albert Camus** The [fear of life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/fear-life.md) is the favorite disease of the 20th century. – **William Lyon Phelps**